Collar-fastening clip.



L. C. HAYNES. COLLAR FASTENING CLIP. APPLICATION FILED OCI'. 23. 1913.

Patented Feb. 15,1916.

W'itnesses Attorney UNITED s'raTES s ripe.

LLOYD c. HAYNES, or LOS AiienLns, CALIFORNIA.

coLLAR-rAs'rENme CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 23, 1913. Serial No. 796,789.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LLOYD C. HAYNES, a

citizen of the United States, residing in the This invention relates to a clip orfas-n tener for securing a collar to a shirt band, and has special reference to the device for securmg the collar at the back of the neck.

The objects I have in iew are to produce a fastener in which there will be no -unpleasant pressure on the neck of the wearer, which will be easily attached, and which may be also utilized for confining the tie or cravatl The invention is particularly applicable to fasteners used with shirts with a double or two-piece neck band, although the invention is not restricted to such use. The drawings illustrate an embodiment of the invention, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the upper part of a shirt band, and standing collar showing a fastening clip embodying my invention, in position. illustrating the position of the collar when subjected to strain incident to applying the front fastener to the right-hand end of the collar; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the collar fastening in place, and with a tie; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a preferred form of fastening clip; Fig. i is a perspective view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 isa plan view of the device illustrated in Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic view on an enlarged scale, showing the clip in position within the pocket between bland, and also showing the position of the button hole of the collar when subjected to strains incident to fastening the right-hand 9 end of the collar on the front of the neck band.

in all of the views like parts are indicated by the same reference. characters.

In the drawings the following parts of the shirt and collar are indicated by small strains in which the parts are sub ect; the

letters, as follows: ai is the inside shirt band; I) is the outside shirt band; 0 is the collar; (Z'is the tie; c is the pocket formed have invented a certain the inner and outer shirt between the inner and outer shirt band; f is the top of .the pocket, the bottom of the pocket being open; g is the button hole in the outside shirt band; it is the button hole in the collar; and 2' is the front collar fastener.

The improved clip is best shown-in Fig. 3, and. comprises a body portion 1, and a tongue 2. and then "downwardly, as shown. extremity is a hook 8. This hook extends out to one side. in which the right-hand end is first fastened the hook extends to the left, as illustrated. lVith collars in which theleft-hand'end is first fastened the hook should extend to the right. The body 1 extends a sufficient distance on each side of the tongue, so that it will partly fill the pocket 0, and prevent ro tation of the body therein when the tongue is subjected to the strain of the collar during the operation of fastening the righthand' end. As the button hole g, formed in the shirt band, is some distance below the. upper edge 7 of the pocket, I provide that the tongue shall extend off from the body at a point below the upper edge of the body, as shown. This will allow the upper edge of the body to engage with the top of the pocket, so that the clip will not twist within the pocket.

The device is applied as follows: It is in troduced through the button hole 9 by first The tongue extends outwardly At its In connection with collars.

tongue. The upwardly extending portion of the body to the right of the tongue will en gage with the top 7 of the pocket, hence the clip will not be twisted. This tendency to twist will also be resisted by the stiffness of the material which forms the outside shirt band I), and which contains the button hole 9.

Fig. 6 illustrates diagrammatically the arrow at the bottom illustrates the line of stress caused by the pulling of the collar in resisted by the top 7' of the pocket.

The device can be made in any Way, al-

though I prefer to make it out of metal,

stamped out of one piece. It can be employed with collars of all types, and may be used or not with the tie d, which passes under the tongue.

' Having now described my invention, What I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A clip for fastening collars to a shirt band which comprises a laterally extending body portion adapted to lie inside of the shirt band, and Within the pocket thereon, and a tongue extending at an angle to the body and then parallel to the body from a point removed from the edge of the body,

said tongue being adapted to pass through the button holes of the shirt band and collar,

and a hook on one side of the extremity of the tongue said hook being located beyond the edge of the body and adapted to prevent Y accidental displacement of the collar when one end. is being fastened at the front, the

body portion, said tongue then extending parallel to the body and at right angles to the greatest length of the body. to a point beyond the edge of the body portiom a hook on the free extremity of the tongue, said hookbeing located entirely beyond. the edge of the body and extending parallel to the.

body portion and to one-side of the tongue, the said hook being adapted to;engage the backbuttonhole of a collar.

This specification signed and witnessed this twenty-second day of ()ctober 1913.

LLOYD C. -lElAYNESv Witnesses ANNA E. BENTON, GEO. J. liANsONn 

